{"id":975929,"date":"2025-11-22T09:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T04:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=975929"},"modified":"2025-11-22T11:06:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T05:36:53","slug":"labour-code-platforms-will-now-need-to-fund-social-security-for-gig-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/22\/labour-code-platforms-will-now-need-to-fund-social-security-for-gig-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour Code: Platforms will now need to fund social security for gig workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Food-delivery, ride-hailing and e-commerce platforms will now have to set aside a slice of their business for worker welfare, with the implementation of the Labour Code on Social Security, 2020. For the first time, gig and platform workers have been formally brought under the social security framework, and aggregators like Zomato, Swiggy, Uber, etc, will be required to contribute 1\u20132% of their annual turnover toward social security schemes designed specifically for this workforce. The contribution is capped at 5% of the total payments made or payable to workers in a financial year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food-delivery, ride-hailing and e-commerce platforms will now have to set aside a slice of their business for worker welfare, with the implementation of the Labour Code on Social Security, 2020. For the first time, gig and platform workers have been formally brought under the social security framework, and aggregators like Zomato, Swiggy, Uber, etc, will be required to contribute 1\u20132% of their annual turnover toward social security schemes designed specifically for this workforce. The contribution is capped at 5% of the total payments made or payable to workers in a financial year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}